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Stephen Wright

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Adams, Richard (1626/7–1698), clergyman and ejected minister, was the son of Charles Adams, clerk, of Woodchurch in the Wirral, Cheshire, and his wife, Isabel, daughter of Thomas Bennet of Barnston in the same county. One of his brothers was Thomas Adams (1631/2–1670). The ...

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Caroline L. Leachman

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Adams, Thomas (1631/2–1670), ejected minister and writer on Christian doctrine, was born at Woodchurch parsonage, Cheshire, one of at least three sons of Charles Adams and his wife, Isabel Bennet 'the daughter of a worthy gentleman'—Thomas Bennet, from the same parish (...

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N. H. Keeble

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Agas [Agus], Benjamin (bap. 1622, d. 1689), clergyman and ejected minister, was born in Wymondham, Norfolk, the son of Edward Agas, the vicar of Wymondham, where he was baptized on 5 September 1622. In 1639 he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1643 (incorporated at ...

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Michael E. Moody

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Ainsworth, Henry (1569–1622), separatist minister and religious controversialist, was baptized on 15 January 1570 at Swanton Morley, Norfolk, son of Thomas Ainsworth, yeoman; he may have had a sister named Anna. He attended school at Swanton Morley for three years under a Mr Clephamson...

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Dirk W. Rodgers

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À Lasco [Laski], John (1499–1560), evangelical reformer, was born in Lask, Poland, the second of three sons and brother to four daughters of Jarslov Laski (d. 1521?), voivode of Sieradz, and Susanna Bak (fl. 1484–1510), daughter of the Bakova-Gora councilman Zbigniew Bak...

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Stephen Wright

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Albin, Henry (1624–1696), clergyman and ejected minister, was born at Batcombe, Somerset, on 20 June 1624 to parents whose names are as yet not known; he attended the grammar school at Glastonbury and is said by Edmund Calamy to have been a student at ...

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Brian W. Kirk

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Alleine, Joseph (bap. 1634, d. 1668), ejected minister and devotional writer, was born in a house next to the Poultry Market, Devizes, Wiltshire, and baptized on 8 April 1634, at St John's Church, there, the fourth child of Tobias Alleine (d. 1667)...

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Stephen Wright

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Alleine, Richard (1610/11–1681), clergyman and ejected minister, was named after his father, Richard Alleine (d. c.1655?), the rector of the Somerset parish of Ditcheat for over fifty years, who supervised his early education. Richard was sent to Oxford, where he matriculated at ...

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Stephen Wright

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Alleine, William (1613/14–1677), clergyman and ejected minister, was the son of Richard Alleine (d. c.1655?), rector of the Somerset parish of Ditcheat, and younger brother of Richard Alleine (1610/11–1681) of Batcombe and Frome Selwood. He attended Oxford University, after matriculating aged seventeen on 4 November 1631 at ...

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Mark Robert Bell

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Allen, Thomas (1608–1673), clergyman and ejected minister, was born in Norwich, son of John Allen, a dyer there. He went to school in the city before being admitted to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on 6 July 1624, aged fifteen. A scholar of the college from 1625 to 1629, he graduated BA in 1628 and proceeded MA in 1631. On 26 February 1634 he was appointed to the parish church of ...

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Donna Bilak

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Allin, John (1623–1683), nonconformist minister and alchemist, was born on 13 October 1623 in Wrentham, Suffolk, the son of the Revd John Allen, or Allin (c. 1596–1671), and his first wife, Margaret, née Morse (c.1598–1653). At the time of Allin's birth his father was the curate in ...

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J. M. Bumsted

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Alline, Henry (1748–1784), evangelist and hymn writer, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, on 14 June 1748, the second son of William Alline and Rebecca Clark. His father, who was probably a miller, responded to the announcements of free land in Nova Scotia...

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William Lamont

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Alsop, Vincent (bap. 1630, d. 1703), clergyman and ejected minister, was the son of George and Judith Alsop. His father was rector of South Collingham, Nottinghamshire, and there Alsop was baptized on 30 August 1630. He attended Uppingham grammar school and in September 1647 was admitted sizar at ...

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Roger Pooley

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Ambrose, Isaac (bap. 1604, d. 1664), Church of England clergyman and ejected minister, and author, was baptized on 29 May 1604 at Ormskirk, Lancashire, the son of the vicar, Richard Ambrose (d. 1613), and his wife, Marie. He entered Brasenose College, Oxford...

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Vivienne Larminie

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Angell, John (d. 1655), preacher and schoolmaster, was probably born in Gloucestershire. According to Anthony Wood, he was admitted to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, about the early months of 1610. Having subscribed to the Thirty-Nine Articles in April 1613 he graduated BA on 9 February 1614 and proceeded MA on 5 July 1616. At an unknown date, again according to ...

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Michael Mullett

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Angier, John (1605–1677), nonconformist minister, was born in Dedham, Essex, in September 1605 and was baptized there on 8 October 1605, the son of John Anger (1576–1624), a prosperous clothier, and his wife, Ann Sherman (d. 1625), the daughter of a Dedham...

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Newton E. Key

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Annesley, Samuel (bap. 1620, d. 1696), clergyman and ejected minister, was born at Haseley, Warwickshire, and baptized there on 26 March 1620, the son of John (d. in or after 1629) and Judith Annesley (variously also Aneley, Anneley, and Annesly) of that parish. He went to school there and at ...

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Bernard Capp

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Archer, John (d. 1639), separatist minister and writer, was the son of Francis Archer (1561–1636), whose family had been settled for centuries at Epping, Essex, and of his wife (d. 1643), whose name is unknown. He is probably the John Archer who graduated MA from ...

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Jim Benedict

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Ashwood, Bartholomew (1622–1678), clergyman and ejected minister, was born in 1622 and baptized on 23 June of that year at Bickleigh, near Tiverton, Devon, the son of Bartholomew Ashwood (d. 1650×60), originally from Warwickshire, who for forty years was rector of Bickleigh...

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